Generosity at
First Church
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F
W
rom the earliest days of the Christian Church, we have been a
uniquely hopeful people. Not necessarily optimistic, but hopeful. Members of the church have seen too many hungry neighbors to be optimistic, and they have fed too many neighbors not to be hopeful. We have witnessed too many homeless brothers and sisters to be optimistic, and we have housed too many siblings not to be hopeful. There is a tension between the problems we witness and our responsibility to offer solutions. The problems are too great, and we are too few. The weight is too heavy for any one person, so we share the burden together.
e continue to hope, to feed, and to help because of What God Has Done.
Our efforts alone will not be enough to solve the problems of our time, but we continue to hope. When our community acts together, children are fed, single mothers are housed, and the elderly are cared for. When we consider what God Has Done, we find faith that God will continue to work in the life of this community.
T
his year, I ask you to take a leap of faith in your pledge. The demands of
our time do not afford us the luxury of simply maintaining. Instead, led by faith, we must become the church our community needs us to be. This means moving beyond stability into growth. This means building the church to meet our community’s needs today and tomorrow. We can have hope, take this leap of faith, and begin building for an uncertain future because of What God Has Done.
